Lord Byron
Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric "She Walks in Beauty"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 January 1788
car chase flying glowing hear hours joy meet pleasure rattling sleep till youth
Did ye not hear it? - No; 'twas but the wind, / Or the car rattling o'er the stony street;/ On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; / No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet / To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.
born happiness joy share
To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
joy
On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined
joy longer memory sorrow
Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still
joy longer memory pain
The memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still.
dream joy tears
And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.
spring flower joy
Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.
giving joy world
There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
joy
...let joy be unconfined...
joy share
To have joy, one must share it.
doubt heard rome stood time
I've stood upon Achilles' tomb, And heard Troy doubted: time will doubt of Rome
alone burning rebel spirit weak
The spirit burning but unbent, / May writhe, rebel - the weak alone repent!
daily lady leave literary smug wits
The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen, I leave them to their daily ""tea is ready,"" Smug coterie and literary lady
adventure agreeable lively
And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.